Similes, metaphors, alliteration, irony and many more techniques are explored in this book as a means of making prose and poetry more enjoyable for the reader as well as the author. Teacher tips, evaluation methods, and student exercises are all included.

Contents: Lesson 1: Tracy Was Mad (Similies); Lesson 2: Like What? (Similes); Lesson 3: One Thing is Another (Metaphors); Lesson 4: Metaphorical Expressions (Metaphors); Lesson 5: Fins Beat Feathers (Idioms); Lesson 6: Not to Be Taken Literally (Idioms); Lesson 7: All About Alliteration (Alliteration); Lesson 8: The Money-Making Mayor (Alliteration); Lesson 9: Hink-Pinks (Rhyme); Lesson 10: Wise 'n' Rhymers (Rhyme); Lesson 11: Quick Milk (Puns, Riddles); Lesson 12: The Paws that Refreshes (Puns); Lesson 13: But Who's the Father? (Personification, Maxims); Lesson 14: Some Persons Who Aren't (Personification); Lesson 15: Losing in Order to Win (Paradoxes, Anecdotes); Lesson 16: Make Mine Candy (Irony, Cinquains); Lesson 17: Whistling Cops (Analogies); Lesson 18: Apt Comparisons (Analogies); Lesson 19: The Handsome Stranger (Hyperbole); Lesson 20: Tall Tales (Hyperbole); Lesson 21: Click, Hiss, Honk and Coo (Onomatopoeia); Lesson 22: Part or Whole? (Synecdoche); Lesson 23: Not Bad (Litotes); Lesson 24: One Mixed-Up Man (Spoonerisms); Lesson 25: Jake's Fright (Spoonerisms, Alliteration); Lesson 26: Repeaters (Tautologies); Lesson 27: Game Shows (Malapropisms); Lesson 28: Abbreviations (Acronyms); Lesson 29: What Does It Mean? (Review of Figurative Language)